Eastwood Christian Church - Nashville, TN

Acts 1:1-8

Acts 2:1-4

"You cannot change the wind, but you can adjust your sails."  — motto of National Hospice Regatta

Matthew 28:1-10

Matthew 28:11-15

"For when the One Great Scorer comes to write against your name, He marks - not that you won or lost - but how you played the game."  — Grantland Rice

Jeremiah 7:3-11a

Mark 11:15-19

"We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly.  Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."

— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., 1967

Psalm 112:1-9

Matthew 13:31-33

"It is in the shelter of each other that the people live."

— Irish Proverb

Matthew 5:1-16

Matthew 6:5-15

"It's the action, not the fruit of the action, that's important.  You have to do the right thing.  It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there'll be any fruit.  But that doesn't mean you stop doing the right thing.  You may never know what results come from your action.  But if you do nothing, there will be no result."

— Mahatma Gandhi

Isaiah 61:1-4, 8

Luke 4:16-30

"No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails.  A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

— Nelson Mandela

Mark 8:27-30

Mark 1:1-15

"You are my child, my beloved:

 With you I am well pleased>" — Mark 1:11b

Psalm 51:1-2, 10-14

Matthew 2:12-23

"Let there be peace on earth

 And let it begin with me." — Jill Jackson Miller

Psalm 148

Matthew 12:1-12

"Arise!  Shine!  Your light has come; the Lord's glory has shone upon you." — Isaiah 60:1 (CEB)

Matthew 1:18-25

John 1:1-18

"There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation."

— Madeleine L'Engle